BILL NUMBER: AB 2568	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fletcher

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 1011 of the Military and Veterans Code,
relating to veterans.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2568, as introduced, Fletcher. Veterans' Home of California.
   Existing law provides for the establishment and operation of the
Veterans' Home of California at various sites for aged and disabled
veterans who meet certain eligibility requirements.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 1011 of the Military and Veterans Code is
amended to read:
   1011.  (a) There is in the department a Veterans' Home of
California, Yountville, situated at Veterans' Home, Napa County.
   (b) (1) The department may establish and construct a second home
that shall be situated in the County of Imperial, Los Angeles,
Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, or Ventura. The home
may be located on one or more sites. The department shall operate the
second home concurrently with the first home.
   (2) The initial site is the Veterans' Home of California, Barstow,
situated in Barstow, San Bernardino County. That site may provide
skilled nursing care for  up to   no more than
 250 residents.
   (3) When completed, the second site shall be the Veterans' Home of
California, Chula Vista, situated in Chula Vista, San Diego County,
pursuant to the recommendations made by the commission established
pursuant to former Section 1011.5.
   (4) When completed, the third site shall be the Veterans' Home of
California, Lancaster, situated in Lancaster, Los Angeles County,
pursuant to the recommendations made by the commission established
pursuant to former Section 1011.5.
   (5) When completed, the fourth site shall be the Veterans' Home of
California, Ventura, situated in the community of Saticoy, Ventura
County.
   (6) There shall be an administrator for, and located at, each site
of the southern California home.
   (7) The department may complete any preapplication process
necessary with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs for
construction of the second home.
   (c) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the second home
is a new state function. The department may perform any or all work
in operating the second home by independent contractors, except the
overall administration and management of the home. Any and all
actions of the department taken before September 17, 1996, that are
consistent with this subdivision are hereby ratified and confirmed,
it having at all times been the intent of the Legislature that the
department be so authorized.
   (d) There shall be an administrator for each home or homesite, who
shall be recommended by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and
appointed by the Governor, and shall be located at that home or
homesite. The salary for each administrator shall be subject to the
approval of the Department of Personnel Administration.